PhD thesis on the use of angels like Hermes and IRIS to explain concepts like encryption and ciphertext👼tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807… [PDF]

alissa When the internet goes down at my house, I just use the internet at your house 🤣

How it started: Looking at government organization charts for open data. How it's going: Apple's AirTag uncovers two secret German intelligence agency locations🤣 appleinsider.com/articles/22/01…

someone needs to make a more realistic version of this, where the FB headset constantly monitors user gaze every nanosecond, providing employers w metrics they can use to enforce maximal work output. every action, motion, and look will be quantified for employer—and FB—benefit

YouTube content creators noticed that making minor errors got them more user interaction, so they started misspelling things on purpose in videos because the algorithm rewards engagement of any kind.

See also: * Mechanical Keyboards * Magic: The Gathering * Warhammer 40k * Multicopters * Audiophilia

Thousands of Berlin residents showed up at the central train station with sign boards offering refugees fleeing Ukraine a place to stay

German data broker and consumer profiling firm Schober promises to "record anonymous store visitors" and then "contact them digitally" #magic 🙄 schober.de/en/audience/

How a permit looks like in Germany.

In Japan there is now a minor boom in falconry: crows are attacking solar power plants with stones, and the only effective way to keep crows away is to deploy falcons. One trained falcon making 60 attack sorties a day can protect 100,000 solar panels from vengeful crows.

Everything you need to know on eye trackers and #metaverse vice.com/en/article/93b… via Jacob Leon Kröger

i'm just saying i'm going to be using this in talks about how AIs manufacture their own representations of the world, and we're forced to resort to increasingly absurd tactics to be "seen" by them as they drift further from reality do whatever you want, but that's what I'M doing

Pic from Ralph Aboujaoude Diaz

Today at #barcampkoeln. Going to transcribe some of the sessions today

chatGPT often seems compelled to sum up what it just wrote by repeating the assertions it made a few paragraphs before. reminds me of students who finish with fluff when forced to meet a word count. makes me wonder if chatGPT would increase font size and line spacing if it could

Today at #bcruhr14. Going to pitch a workshop how to secure your smartphone from spy apps #ITsecurity